The Japanese manufacturer Honda has collaborated with the Kabuku company to carry out the prototype of a single-seater minivan that incorporates an electric motor and has a body made with 3D printing technology.
Kabuku's Rinkak solution enables the digital manufacturing, on demand, of customized products that can satisfy the needs of its customers, attending to the design, engineering and manufacturing that they require.
In this case, the order was carried out by the pastry company Toshimaya, which needed a customized delivery vehicle that would be eye-catching and could serve as a rolling advertising platform, and which also took into account that the company's headquarters are in Kamakura ( Japan), where the streets are especially narrow, which complicates the work of the delivery men. For this reason, it had to be small in size.
Honda was in charge of the technical development of the powertrain and the tubular chassis of this minivan; while almost all the body parts were made by Kabuku using a 3D printer .
This is how this original design, single-seater and with a large trunk to carry the load, has come to light, which was recently unveiled in the framework of CEATEC , a fair in which Japanese technology companies show their latest advances and that are celebrated at the Makuhari Messe complex in Chiba.
Image: Kabuku
